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scunnering

scunnering is the present participle and gerund of scunner.

Meaning of scunner

Verb

scunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnering, simple past and past participle scunnered)

  1. To be sick of.
  2. (Northumbria) To dislike.
  3. (Northern Ireland, Scotland) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
    • But maybe she'd just got scunnered with Glasgow, fucked off to try her luck someplace else.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 123

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Questions about scunnering

What is scunnering the present participle and gerund of?
Scunnering is the present participle and gerund of scunner.

Words near scunnering in the dictionary

  1. scunging
  2. scungy
  3. scunned
  4. scunner
  5. scunnered
  6. scunnering
  7. scunners
  8. scunnersome
  9. scunning
  10. Scunny
  11. scuns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scunnering (page history and authors); scunner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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